Improved bag-filler for fanning-mills



1.10. GEPHART.

l Bag Filler. No. 104,297. Patented June 14, 1870.

N. PETERS, PHOTD-LITHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON,.D..C.

@tutti @Mira JACOB O. GEPHART, OF DOWAGIAO, MICHIGAN.

Letters` Patent No. 104,297, dated June 14, 1870.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JACOB C. GEPHART, of Dowagiac, in the county of' Cass and State of Michigan, have invented a new andimproved Bag-Filler for Fanning-Mills; and I do hereby declare that the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawing makin part of this specification, in whichigure 1 is a vertical sectional view of iuy.i|n proved bag-filler and a portion ot a tanning-mill.

Figure 2 is a top view of the elevator and filler.

Figure 3 is a section taken transversely through the same.

Similar letters ot reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to afford great facil-v ity for lling bags with cleaned grain passing off from a fanniug-mill.

1t consists in constructing the endless apron, its slats, and the rollers around which said parts move, that the great mass lof grain, while being elevated, will fall to the center'ot the apron, so as to be delivered in a narrow stream, instead of iu a broad sheet as wide as the apron, as will be hereinafter explained.

To enable othersskilled in the art to understand my invention I will explainl its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawing- A represents a tanning-mill,l for cleaning grain, which may be constructed in any of the well-known or improved ways, provided there is adischarge-shoe or spout, B, or equivalent, whereby the grain, as it escapes from such spout, can be received into and elevated to a proper height for delivering it into bags, as Iwill be hereinafter explained.

rlhe elevator and bag-holder consists of two sideboards, E E, of proper width and length, connected together by means Aof transverse bars, and provided, at its extremities, with rollers, 7) b, around which an endless slatted belt is applied.

The lower end of this frame is provided with holding-pins, g, and otherwise adapted for being attached to and supported by some part of the frame ot' a fan- `while being lled with grain;

The props D are pivoted to thesides of the elevator-frame, and adapted for sustaining this iame at any desired angle.

'The endless belt or apron, j, is fit-ted to run upon the concave rollers b l, so as to form a channel, to-v ward the center of which allthe grain which is received upon the apron will fall.

The transverse slats, brackets, or elevators, a, are similarly curved, so as to be adapted to thc 'concave apron and rollers, as shown in figs. 2 and 3;

One end of the shaft, b', of the upper roller 1) is extended out and provided with a pulley, c, around which a belt is passed that is carried arounda similar pulley on the fan-shaft of the mill. motion is transmitted to the elevator-aprop, and, by properly adj usting the size of the pulleys,with respect to the cleaning capacity of the mill, the grain will be carried otf and bagged as rapidly as it is cleaned.

Having described my invention,

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-v ters Patent, is*

1. The combined bag-holder and elevator herein shown, consisting of spout c, in'combinatiou with concave rollers b b, apron f, and plano-convex slats a, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The plauo-convex slats a., in combination with the apron f, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses:

O. E. BAILEY, MYRON L. CULLOM.

By this means 

